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Reverend Lionel Jean Michel

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Aug 5, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Reverend Lionel Jean Michel

    While South Africa debates borders, it is losing its breadbasket (opens the original)

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    Nations are rarely undone by the questions they ask. They are undone by the questions they never think to ask. South Africa has become consumed by one conversation. Illegal immigration. Television panels debate it. Politicians campaign on it. Civil society marches over it. The government meets with advocacy groups to discuss it. The public square has become a courtroom where everyone argues over who belongs and who does not. Yet amid all the noise, another question has slipped quietly into the s

  2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Reverend Lionel Jean Michel

    The country that forgot its own lesson: Xenophobia, memory and the pass book that never quite left (opens the original)

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    A man stands outside a clinic in Gauteng holding a placard. He is not asking anyone to leave the country. He is asking them to produce a piece of paper before a nurse will look at a cough, a wound or a fever in a child. Behind him, a queue of the sick has stopped moving. Somewhere further back, a Malawian grandmother does not know whether to stay or to walk home and die there instead, quietly, without the indignity of being asked for papers first. This is South Africa in 2026. Not the South Afri

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